Yahoo! scorches up the battle for search supreme with a new homepage that includes previews of content from social networking sites

Yahoo! will reveal a major overhaul of its homepage later today that will blend its collection of online content together with popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The new homepage will be less cluttered than the existing version, showcasing fewer Yahoo! products and services, while allowing preview content from third-party websites like Facebook to feature on a column that runs down the left-hand of the webpage. It will be available in the United States later today and is expected to be rolled out in other countries over the next few weeks.

According to a Reuters report, Yahoo! will sell advertisements that will display alongside the previews.